Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] of [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the tremendous wealth in the far eastern regions of the former USSR , should we not consider them part of Europe if we are to try to expand the European Community for the benefit of all mankind ? |
| 2 | Probably save them loads of money as well . |
| 3 | Shaun confessed to me loads of times that he wanted to leave the band because it was n't a good living and he did n't enjoy it that much . |
| 4 | It 's also worth stressing that these books are for real people , with real gardens : we 're not giving them pictures of Blenheim or Buckingham Palace . |
| 5 | He enhances our sense not only of the poets ' universe — me cosmology of Dante and Milton , for example — but also of the symbolism used by painters and architects . |
| 6 | Because that 's what it feels like today , he wrote , and because I know in my heart of hearts that it will feel like that tomorrow as well . |
| 7 | You do n't lead my kind of life if you ca n't damp down emotions . |
| 8 | As for their laying the birch on my pocket , I compute that my support of Lewis and Brzeska has cost me at the lowest estimate about £20 per year , from one source alone since that regrettable occurrence , since I dared to discern a great sculptor and a great painter in the midst of England 's artistic desolaton . |
| 9 | I snatched my miniature of whisky and lifted it towards the raised glasses at home , before stepping outside to watch those stars to the left of Polaris which would be blinking over Manchester . |
| 10 | I believe that the genuine fears that exist in my part of Scotland and throughout Scotland are justified . |
| 11 | I enjoyed my course of study and felt that the practicalities of business were a perfect antidote to the magic that had dominated my adolescence . |
| 12 | This was brought home to me recently when the Conservation Officer of the Cumbria Wildlife Trust countered my defence of canoeing and canoeists by accepting that two or three canoeists are no problem in a sensitive area , whereas a large group does cause unacceptable disturbance to wildlife . |
| 13 | She always used to ask my opinions of things and that now a lot of my answers made sense . |
| 14 | Although it is not possible to rehearse here the many deficiencies of the antiracist brand of class reductionism , some of the difficulties are signalled by my description of instrumentalism and the patronizing ‘ cultural dope ’ stereotype of the white working-class racist . |
| 15 | Fielding held the crimson menu ( silken , tasselled and beautified , reminding me and my fingers of Selina and her secrets ) in slender brown hands , the wrists cuffed in pale blue and the gold links taut on their chains . |
| 16 | It was only through my presence of mind that we were saved from a frightful scandal . ’ |
| 17 | I would have kept my presence of mind if the mouse , disturbed by all the commotion , had n't actually jumped into my welly . |
| 18 | More realistic pay , dependent on my level of expertise and the amount of responsibility I hold |
| 19 | It would just have altered my level of safety and I would have forgotten the route completely by now . |
| 20 | But I 'd had my fill of merrymaking and decided to stay put a while until my headache eased . |
| 21 | I shall go even further : my freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles . |
| 22 | This done , I nibbled bleakly on my piece of lettuce and dry bun and dreamed of being almost anywhere else in the universe . |
| 23 | Students in my borough of Wandsworth and in other , mostly Conservative , boroughs whose community charge was below target have no problem , because an element of the student grant meets 20 per cent . |
| 24 | How vain I feel is an attempt for me with all my weight of immorality and worry and dull ( not bad ) health to sweeten you who are so pure and without care and of bright health . |
| 25 | I am already beset by offers to interrupt my pearls of wisdom and , in deference to my good friend , I give way to the hon. Gentleman . |
| 26 | She even had room to tell me that she had finished a short novel : ‘ but it suffered from my months of flat-hunting and threatened upheaval … stay in your flat . |
| 27 | Of these the elder , William ( 1705–1747 ) — to whom he left ‘ all my stock of Marble and Timber … in my Marble Yard in Warwick ’ — continued in his father 's business and built some more country houses in the midlands . |
| 28 | But he checked every bit of my work of course and so most of the time do it by himself and let and me do other things . |
| 29 | Now , she felt , I am suddenly old , and I would like to crawl back into my cocoon of bedclothes and sleep and sleep , for what else is there ? |
| 30 | However , I do n't see myself as a jack of all trades ; instead I believe that I am broadening my range of expertise while remaining a commercial lawyer . ’ |